NOW Supports Senate Resolution Promoting Diversity in Media Ownership

Released on March 5, 2008

Women own just five percent of commercial broadcast TV stations and six percent of all full-power radio stations. Whenever the FCC allows big media companies to gobble up more stations, it leaves fewer outlets for women and people of color to purchase.

NOW Says “Let the Women Jump!” in 2010 Winter Olympics

Released on February 24, 2008

“We are well into the 21st century, yet women ski jumpers still are not permitted to compete at their sport’s highest level,” said Kim Gandy in a statement issued at a Women’s Ski Jumping USA rally held in Vancouver, Canada.

Women Deliver on Super Tuesday

Released on February 5, 2008

Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and chair of the NOW PAC, and Eleanor Smeal, co-chair of the NOW Advisory Board, comment on the Super Tuesday results. “The women’s vote carried Hillary Clinton to victory in delegate-rich states that will put her ahead in the ultimate delegate count. Her historic race has energized the gender gap, which is key because women make up the majority of voters in the general election,” said Kim Gandy.